Example sentences of "the two [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The two armies met near the village of Osterwald , where , after a long and close fought battle the Orcs were driven from the field .
2 Amid a widespread mood of national reconciliation , sappers of the two armies collaborated throughout the month to neutralize some of the thousands of landmines concealed in wide areas of the country , and began recovering weapons caches and disarming civilians .
3 And you see the two players tangling on the ground here .
4 This pattern can be described economically in terms of Garrett 's model if we propose that , of the two processes applied to the message-level representation in order to create the functional-level representation , one has been completely disabled , with the other remaining almost intact .
5 Interviews , all of which will be conducted by the two Professors participating in the study , will take place in three broad geographical areas — London , Scotland and South West England .
6 The most important difference between the two approaches ensued from the public setting of the court case .
7 We focused on the two newspapers owned by the same person , Rupert Murdoch , and which included the most rape reports — thirty-two in the Sun and seventy-two in the News of the World in which not one rape case in 1978 was covered by both newspapers .
8 Concern was also expressed for the future of the British components industry if Ford showed less willingness to purchase British components than Austin Rover traditionally had done — thus any job losses could extend beyond the two firms engaged in the merger .
9 Both groups of workers set their wage rates given their ( rational ) expectations of the level of prices in the two periods covered by the wage contract .
10 Through the centuries of developing life , the need to choose one or the other of the two routes indicated in the Choices has faced all human races .
11 The two men are now bringing leaders of the two races to meet in the professor 's home .
12 The two stars came into the picture with their tongues firmly in their cheeks , determined to wring every moment of fun out of the script .
13 Some of the backs were dilapidated but the two premises belonging to the Glynns stood out in good repair : the wall had been recently pointed and colour-washed and the door freshly painted .
14 You would not expect a well-made machine like this to be light , and at 2.8kg ( 6.2lb ) it is n't , so you need the two handles moulded into the case of the machine to help hold it .
15 There were also unconfirmed reports that West Germany 's KWU was studying a resumption of work on the two reactors ordered by the Shah 's government in 1976 and suspended after the revolution .
16 Perception of the two dots swings along the easiest path .
17 The treatment was only given by one of the two physicians participating in the study ( JLJ and CG ) , both with previous experience in the use of heater probe .
18 With the kind assistance of the local estate agencies I have gone some way to tracing the subsequent history of the two properties owned by the above company .
19 Another major difference is that the Sizewell PWR will have four high-head safety injection pumps instead of the two pumps used in the US , plus additional safeguards equipment .
20 It has been paralleled by a similar increase in Langstone Harbour in Hampshire , which is only separated from Chichester Harbour by Hayling Island ; in fact , the two harbours join at the north end of Hayling .
21 Swindon Town are back on the league treadmill at Grimsby tomorrow when the two teams met at the County Ground in November it finished 1-1 .
22 The two teams arrived in the northern capital from Beijing where they had been competing in the Asian Games .
23 So by June 1991 , the two teams working from the West Kingsdale end , had pushed the end of the line to 1435 metres from base .
24 Hendrique , using two paper napkins to protect his hands , removed the strip light from its socket on the ceiling of the carriage directly above the table then unravelled a length of flex and secured the two crocodile clips at the end of it to the respective overhead power points .
25 The two themes converge in the final act , when the Queen is faced with the warrant for Essex 's execution .
26 Madeleine and Victorine stood behind his wheelchair , like nurses , while the two girls huddled on the windowseat .
27 The general run of shoppers would not believe that the two girls came from the same family .
28 The two girls totter to the lavatory door , laughing at the funniest thing they 've seen since Grandma sat on her chihuahua .
29 Maybe a coincidence , maybe the two girls talked on the phone , decided they 'd both had enough .
30 He sat in an old deck chair and the two girls sat on the ground , each leaning against one of his legs .
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